#literally none of this is canon LOL

[misperceived-monotreme]

guys idk if you can tell but i really like the resistance

#literally none of this is canon LOL #also the bottom three are from like 2 months ago when I was still getting #used to procreate to bear with how those ones look 🙏🙏 #phineas and ferb #across the second dimension #pnf au #technically #pnf #candace flynn #carl karl #major monogram #I’m not gonna tag the other 3 cause they’re hardly there lol

[rainbowchaox]

Be climbing out of bed like a zombie because I tried to watch Philza and literally passed out 30 mins in (thank you loads mercy for the vod)

BUT anyways (holding red string)

Missa said he start streaming 28-30 on Qsmp

Philza streams Mon Weds Fri

Mon is 28

Wed is 30

THEREFORE ONE OR THREE DAYS UNTIL DEATH FAMILY RENUION-

#qsmp #death duo #pissa #none of you guys gonna be ready for the me that offically got to see pissa renuion #spiderbit? cute and canon #fit pac? slowburn and cute #fooligetta? canon as hell #slimemariana? Coldplay canon that got like divorced #BUT PISSA? THATS MY CANON PAIR LOL #ESSPECIALLY for everyone that only got into Qsmp after Missa left for MIL- I mean to get his beloved a present and apparently got adopted #by wolves #because literally pissa along with Fooligetta and slimemariana was everyone og ship #plus Missa is so mctrucking hilarious I love his humor

[oceanwithouthermoon]

https://x.com/d3kutism/status/1741579841764475157?s=46

it should be illegal to be this fucking stupid so loudly and confidently omg..

mfs on the internet preach about "media literacy" yet they completely gloss over the fact that the only damn things that kusuo "canonically" is are a tsundere, an unreliable narrator, and a fucking liar LMFAOOO.. babe thats like basic reading comprehension, im sorry..

EDIT: it should go without saying not to send a person hate just because of a silly post like this one(+i dont have any reach anyway so im sure it wouldnt happen, but i wanna say this nonetheless lol) but i would just like to say that i just checked and realized that this person is 15 years old, so like... yeah, too young to be arguing with grown people on the internet. dont take this too serious or send this person hate pls lol..

#nobody who isnt aroace is allowed to tell ME what character has to be aroace #yall forget that we aroaces (+ESPECIALLY autistic aroaces) dont want or need your ugly white knight savior bs #'oh but im aroace n i also think hes aroace🤓' ok?? should i care about your hcs? #have your projection hcs or your regular random hcs- i literalky DONT care #but it becomes an issue when u try so desperately to defend it like this #like babe u sound so dumb☠️ #its so confusing to me how u chronically online weirdos insist on making ur hcs canon #i promise u guys ur hcs dont have to be canon for u to enjoy them #its a VERY popular hc too like tf more do u want #im autistic and aroace and i say kusuo is demi and autistic #i am him and he is me so i know factually/j #so still on the aroace spectrum but either way i dont force my hcs on other people like u selfish weirdos do LOL #also this person and the replies being like 'just cuz not all autistic ppl r aroace doesnt mean none can be' YEA OBVIOUSLY? #UR ARGUING WITH THE WALL AND ITS CRAZY CUZ NOBODY EVER SAID THAT #literally not one fucking person said he cant be aroace- just that it isnt canon #do u even fucking hear urselves.. YOURE the ones saying he cant be anything other than aroace.. so YOURE the one doing the forcing.. #u guys love pushing ur stereotypes on others and then defending it to high fucking hell #anyway sorry i dont have a public twitter so im saying my piece here #the link looks suspicious as hell twitter pwease give me a better link #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki kusuo #meows post

[biblionerd07]

No amount of character assassination in the later seasons could ever be enough to make me hate Danny Castellano. It will never work because I KNOW that isn’t you, my short king. How could I stop loving the red magnetic reading glasses? The Secret Santa dance? The dorky way he got so excited about the bomber jacket? How nervous he was for his driving test? The strip tease to American Woman? The way his legs dangle when he sits on the countertop with flowers? His sad, lonely piano playing? The way he raised his little brother and supports his entire family? How he apologized for being too harsh about Mindy being late and admitted it was due to his daddy issues? The tailor-made workout plan full of celebrity scenarios? Reading Bridget Jones’s Diary in a terrible British accent? Writing out a list of all his secrets to tell Mindy to prove he trusts her? His fear of the ocean out of respect? His old man rants about not turning on the heat when you could just put on a sweater and do some pushups? The plane kiss??? His exercise addiction as his only mental health coping strategy? The gingerbread houses every Christmas? His love of Ken Burns? His lil beanie when he’s going to the gym? The way he found out about his half-sister and immediately agreed to go to her soccer game? His attempts to make interpersonal chitchat with varying degrees of success? The way he broke his no lying rule to get Mindy out of hot water and did a TERRIBLE job? His nervous sweats? His love of sandwiches, even at parties at other people’s houses? His loyalty to the people he loves? THEY TURNED YOUR GRUMPINESS INTO AN UGLY, BITTER, ABUSIVE THING BUT I SAW ALL THAT GROWTH FOR THREE SEASONS AND I KNOW BETTER, MY BELOVED!!!

#the mindy project #tmp #danny castellano #I will always love you #it very greatly helps that he is played by chris Messina I won’t try to pretend it doesn’t #but why did they write him so wonderfully and show me his growth and then turn around and say he couldn’t change #he literally did all along!!!! #they said they wanted to make it so fans didn’t miss Danny at all but instead I just stopped watching the show altogether #I’ve never even seen most of season 4 and I’ve seen none of season 5 and only the ending to season 6 #and I never plan to see them! #it’s literally canon that he eats pussy like a thirsty camel in the desert. if you even care #also I have to say on this rewatch I am picking up big autistic vibes from Danny lol

[not-another-robin]

My opinion does not hold any weight bc I am literally delusional about these fuckers

#on one hand i could write a 16 page essay about how alfred helped normalize for me the idea of being taken care of as a disabled adult #and the idea that being an adult who needs assistance with every day tasks does not make you useless #and helped me combat a lot of self hatred and hopelessness when i was diagnosed #and. TO ME. Batman and alfred feel like a genuinely positive representation of an autistic adult with executive disfunction with a caretake #but then again. i literally live in looneytoons land and most likely none of that has any canon evidence #if not the opposite #sorry lol i just. have thoughts but i know my thoughts are not well thought. you know #i would love to contribute to real conversations about the representation of disability but im. stupid

[hexhomos]

im curious to know your thoughts on viktor's biography saying jayce was nothing more than an inconvenience. how do you handle him saying they were never friends? was this because of piltoverians superiority or? (correct me if im wrong but i cant remember if you touched on that)

A friend of mine once said a catastrophic breakup has the unforeseen consequence of tainting everything that came before it in the harsh, abrasive light of the fresh argument, and after that initial damage is done it’s hard to pick out how the memories *really* were. No matter how positive. You begin to doubt, re-read and re-write what happened, so the ultimate split "makes sense."

This may not even be a conscious process half of the time! But jokes about crazy-ex-girlfriends exist for a reason, and I believe that reason might be a surplus of unwarranted crazy-ex-girlfriend stories that are told after the dissolution of every messy relationship. You need a clear Right and a clear Wrong. Rationalizing your behavior as “only logical, in the face of irrationality,” is a defense mechanism. It’s not a pretty one, but it boils down to this: avoidance of guilt, rejection of any criticism you may consider too true, the reshaping of your narrative so *you* are the one in control, the winner, the guy who’s closing the debate with the perfect comeback, one thought up in the shower 12 hours after the fact.

Viktor lies a lot. By omission, exaggeration, negligence and a sense of dwindling pride. Jayce is simultaneously unstoppably unjust and a worm-man that could be crushed beneath his heel; an insufferable viktor never chose for himself! Who is, at the same time, somehow, his work partner of years, actively by his side right up until his last project - or until he's had enough. And the dissonance is the point. This is an image that has been warped so much in editing you can see the smudgy click and drag marks in the surroundings. 

I do think Jayce and Viktor were friends, and this is an assertion I make without doubt. Viktor calls jayce his old friend when the plea benefits him, this is corroborated by how positively Jayce's bio speaks about Viktor, even while criticizing his methods.

Jayce is indifferent to nearly everyone he meets, he says so himself, in his opening paragraphs; if he really was so Out There To Get Viktor And Ruin His Life &/Or Reputation- what fucking reason does he have to defend Viktor's honor after he's proved himself to be unstable and aggressive? If their relationship was nonexistent, sour, or predicated exclusively in rivalry or animosity, why does Viktor ask for Jayce to join him in his grand plan, after years of alleged cold war? What reason is there for Jayce to apologize and still extend him an out after Viktor sinks his head in with a giant crystal? What reason is there for him to even disclose doing that? (what reason is there for Jayce to call Viktor petnames after multiple direct attempts on his life???? LOL)

To put it mildly. If we are to take Viktor’s POV by his word (imagine he is being honest,) and see this as a straightforward detached revenge story about prejudice or jayce’s unreasonable hero complex or piltover carelessly wanting to trump over zaun or whatever - why doesn’t Jayce’s side of the story simply call him a cunt and move on? He has all the setup to prop himself as the true hero, but he doesn’t. Like Bon points out here, Jayce’s bio doesn’t even bring up that Viktor is a Zaunite. Not Once. There is no stereotypical city grudge casting him in a bad light. The information is implicit: they talk about Zaun, extensively, but Viktor’s ideas and standing and existence are what you know him by, not some undercity-dwelling boogeyman. If anything, Jayce self-deprecates far more frequently than Viktor does, and makes a sustained effort to poke holes on the audience’s perception of him being a ‘valiant hearted hero’ of any kind. He dont give a fuck. He doesn't want this title. He did not pick it. He is not choosing to represent this city. He has other, better, palpable things to care about. Namely his work, and generally ‘preventing people from being made into fucking zombies’. Jayce doesn’t want you to think that he is right(eous), but that what is happening is wrong.

If I take a step back from text interpretation here and tell you what I personally gather from it, Opinion Wise, it's this: Viktor is concerned with presenting you with a tragic fable because he has an ideology to sell. The revisions and concessions he makes along the way are for the ultimate purpose of crafting a legend. And sometimes that requires humility. He needs the rationalization to make sense of every single bad thing that has ever happened in his life; and in his way there he also tends to mix up one sore spot with the other, like they're all this elaborate multi-step prank destiny sprung on him, like every single other person in his life has been Lowkey Conspiring Against Him, so you can eventually agree to this:

Humans suck, right? We agree humans suck, right, guys? I mean wouldn't we love it if humans didn't suck? Thats Why I Came Up With A Solution!! THE NEURALINK. - Viktor. (note: whenever there's a mention of the student body, swap it with 'Jayce' to see how the motivation builds up. Viktor makes an effort to omit him whenever possible anyway)

He's kind of at the end of his rope. This is his last ditch effort to build himself back up.

Generally speaking, the opposite goes for Jayce. He frontloads his statement with mentions of how he is a huge dipshit, unabashedly so, to get really at the meat of things: He thinks Viktor's preaching is fucking bogus, but the point is that guy used to be his friend. That guy used to be someone he knew! That guy was brilliant at what he did, even, but something went really terribly wrong down the line and it's frankly fucked up that it happened. But nobody really cares nor can they fully understand, because as Jayce previously stated, maybe everyone else is kind of fucking stupid, so he has to fix things on his own. (Jayce doesn't have any 'I stand for justice and righteousness and the american way,' comeback prepared to rebuke Viktor's speeches. That sentence could make him barf. He just has very strong feelings about where the line is drawn, and he’s not going to wait for the worst case scenario before doing something.)

I do think that more than anything else, It’s important (and telling) that both of their bios admit to them being deeply hurt by their falling-out. Jayce calls it ‘growing more insular’, Viktor calls it ‘traumatic’, there are attempts to patch things back up on either side (even if a bit tilted, even if the propositions don’t work) Viktor regrets trusting anyone at all, so he covers it up with detachment. Jayce regrets not having enough faith to communicate anything, when he could have, so he tries his best to own up to every present or imagined failure in his way towards improvement.

Of course Viktor would describe Jayce as inconvenient. Viktor is one of the many perceived past failures Jayce is desperately trying to do damage control for. And if he *can’t* change Viktor’s mind, well. At least Jayce can stand in his way and be really, really annoying.

#Jayvik #Vikjayce #jayce giopara #viktor league of legends #jayce league of legends #Viktor lol #Jayce lol #Lesgue of legends #Legends of runeterra #Hexposts #meta tag #LOR #'legends of runeterra is arguably a side canon' Yes But none of the LOR content pertaining to vkjc directly contradicts their concepts #If anything it is literally the closest we get to character-world integration for them #And they are both depicted as considerably more put together than the immediate chaos of their bios (thanks to LOR being set After All that

[delightfuldevin]

Been seein some rather cold takes about Daisy lately…

I’ve seen some people say that she has no personality outside of fanon, but that’s just not true. There is a very very common misconception among the fandom (at least that I’ve noticed) that if a character doesn’t appear in a “mainline” game, then they have no personality. But I’d argue that the spinoffs actually offer waaaaay more in terms of looking into character personalities. And no, I’m not talking about the RPGs ala M&L and Paper Mario as those are obviously full of personality (and Daisy isn’t in those). I’m talking about the Party, Kart, Tennis, and other sports games.

Yes, Daisy hasn’t appeared in any mainline game since her debut, but she’s been in nearly every sports game and her traits, stats, abilities, victory/loss animations, and various other tiny details add up to her personality. The fact that she’s nearly always yelling or just speaking really loud in general (noticeably more than any other character), the fact that she constantly feels a need to say her name and make herself known, how she loves flowers and considers even a small patch of flowers worth protecting, how she’s easily bored by tasks that don’t excite her and isn’t so reliable for them. She tends to jump around a lot, and spin and dance around when she’s excited! She’s apparently a rather fast runner and that is considered her specialty! These are all traits that are displayed in the spinoffs, and there’s probably soooo many more that I just can’t remember right now.

Now, I do think her tomboyish nature is probably fanon, as I don’t really remember seeing anything to show that she acts that way in the games. I think people probably think she’s tomboyish due to how loud and energetic she is. But hey, there’s plenty of fanon for just about any character from any fandom out there. And what’s so wrong with that? Isn’t the whole point of making fanworks to expand on the framework already provided by canon? If we want to stick to what’s actually “canon” then nearly everything the fandom has created would have to be tossed, because there really isn’t much to work with. Fanworks and fandoms thrive on what fans can create based on the canon work, not just sticking to it perfectly.

It’s fine if you think the “fanon” Daisy outshines the “canon” Daisy and you dislike that. But to say that she has no personality aside from fanon interpretations just tells me that you have a very narrow idea of what counts as “canon” in an already rather simplistic world. The Mario games are very simple and straightforward without much consistent lore that actually makes sense cohesively, but the characters are what keep everything tied together despite that. The characters are nearly always consistent, and that includes Daisy. Even when the setting is completely different and some random new villain shows up with some random new power source to steal or species to torment, our same well-known lovable characters will be the center of the story and that’s what makes it fun!

#devin speaks #super mario bros #princess daisy #i mightve gotten a bit too personal with my views of canon vs fanon but i still think it needs to be said #people who argue over what is considered canon in a video game series are so funny to me #especially a series like mario that has expanded soooo far from its original premise #its different than a show or movie since most shows will finish their main story before delving into spinoffs #most of the mainline games are literally just bowser kidnapped the princess and mario has to save her #very few of them offer any insight to personality of anyone #that isn’t to say theres none at all but i still think the party kart and sports games offer waaay more #of course everyone is entitled to their own opinions and if you dislike daisy or think shes boring then whatever you do you #i am simply sharing my opinion as well :) #sorry time to be salty real quick #literally the entirety of waluigis personality comes from the spin offs but no one talks about him??? #he is literally in the same boat as daisy but i never see anyone saying they dislike him for his ‘fanon personality’ #really makes you think #people rag on peach for ‘having no personality’ too but hers shines through the spinoffs as well #and even the rpgs!! shes actually in those and has multiple voicelines and cutscenes and people *still* say she has no personality! #i know this is about daisy but gosh mario ladies in general are treated rather poorly unless theyre eye candy #im glad rosie debuted in a mainline game with a clearly given backstory spoon fed to the player so she doesnt get this treatment lol

[brookheimer]

me, obsessed with kaveh 🤝 people who hate kaveh = despising kaveh fans

#i’m not gonna get into it but i hate 97% of you #none of you have reading comprehension or the desire to let an interesting character be interesting #nooo. you’re just gonna inexplicably feminize him and turn him into some kind of dumbass prettyboy babygirl crybaby #when he’s canonically a genius and one of the most intelligent characters in the entire thing #🆗 #it’s like what bsd fans do to chuuya but arguably even worse bc kaveh is canonically his partner’s intellectual equal #but nooooo just hit him with the yaoibeam put him in a maid dress and call it a day i guess #hilarious to me that the point of his character is to prove that intellect and emotion can coexist and empathy shouldnt be seen solely as #‘feminine’ and devalued as irrational but you guys are calling him a beautifully stupid princess and feminizing him for no rzn #literally proving the exact problems his character exists to counter LOL. y’all rly said ‘emotion = weak = feminine’

[mallahanmoxie]

following the logic in that post you know what I also hate is when they really wanna get a mlm ship together but one of the men is in a very public and positive relationship with a beloved female character so they just "make her gay" and give her a girlfriend and blow up that ship with absolutely no substance involved (literally just "they're girlfriends! hehe") so they can delude themselves into thinking they're absolved of all guilt, as if that harebrained weirdo scheme is not worse than just shipping the damn thing. i know what you're doing. sidelining her character in favour of a man is still wrong even if you turn them all queer to do so. you are very transparent.

#my latest example of this is that james regulus ship #which is like lol bc none of those characters have any personality whatsoever #so how do you manage to sideline an already fridged female character for another dumbass with ONE MENTION IN THE BOOK is like. wow. #you know what the worse thing is. you could just ship that. you literally could Just Ship That #i like james and sirius! i dont have to concoct a pyramid scheme just to read fic about them. be real. #why is everyone lately so obsessed with their ships attaining some measure of. authority. #like they NEED them to be canon in some warped way to feel at ease shipping them #WHY????? #why?????? #it baffles me. just ship the damn thing. fuck canon. #psa newsmen still at large

[persephonaae]

Beepbeepbeep

#this is just me rambling in the tags just about whatever lol you don’t need to pay attention but #tumblr really has the most tepid takes on Greek mythology 😭 #and adaptations thereof. like. especially lore Olympus is soooo polarizing fjsjjsjdjjsjsjdjf #girl it’s fine if you don’t like it! it’s a very specific genre comic inspired by myth! but so many people on here make hating LO their #entire personality it’s like so funny. they act like it’s some evil piece of media destroying the ‘Greek canon’ or whatever when it’s just a #cute little romance genre that literally states it’s not trying to say that it’s really canon to Greek myth #so many people saying it’s problematic when rlly they mean they don’t like romance genre and that specific interpretation isn’t their jam! #that’s all you need to say and be done with it! it’s just not your jam and leave it be #Greek myth canon/interpretation is also something so subjective anyway. to really start getting a grasp on it you need to #really study Ancient Greek culture and their myths and the conventions of mythological storytelling and even different storytelling historys #you’ll find that interpretations are a mess and they’re simultaneously all true and none true. they’re about human experience: #simply put: take the meaning that matters to you/resonates with you #and cheers if you accept different interpretations as well! you’re allowed to like and accept multiple views on the same myth! #anyway if you ARE reading these tags and want to fight me on this! do remember: #I’m Greek myself and I’ve also done a bit of studying on the Homeric Hymn to Demeter at a university level #(as well as general Greek mythology too but relevant to this topic is the hymn to demeter)

[cielospeaks]

this is completely and utterly a shitpost but list of potential ricky ds outfits

(most? likely): amadeus the movie

+fits his backstory really well and he could fit as either of the main characters (moz was frustrated when he became an adult and wanted people to respect his music and ideas and not just cute childishness, sal has inferiority abt his music and keeps a lot to himself), would potentially look nice w demon symphony (mask buddies!)

-might be too early to be ds since its from the 80s (please)

(somewhat likely): music man

+would be very wholesome and cute, ricky also has an inconventional means of music and like the main character is good at using his charisma/charm to get around things, cmon i just want to see ricky in a cute little boater hat and bowtie or a marching band uniform im literally going feral over the karaoke outfits, timeline is probably safe since its an old ish movie

-they might not do it bc ricky is typecast as a european nobleman (booo), the main character is probably more crafty and sly than nervous ol ricky

(this is just wish fulfillment): young frankenstein (or chocolate factory)

+yf story fits ricky really well: european man from a famous/infamous family trying desperately to escape his reputation, soft spoken but firm, but eventually his destiny catches up to him. they both have similar temperaments imo. for cf its more that i want to see him in this meme

-doesnt necessarily have to do with music (but guys. the violin scene from yf it could happen. or the tap dancing sequence too!!!), time is girigiri being from 70s

(??? i literally have no idea): totc charles darnay

+like even more parallels. half french nobleman leaves his birthplace and rejects/is rejected by his family, tries to make a life for himself but his past catches up to him and he (almost) dies for it. the french revolution ties might be a big plus for this one

-has gosh nothing to do with music which should be a minus for me but i adore totc so yes please, i have no idea if there are adaptations of the story within the timeframe bc i am a book nerd lol, ricky might have a dead twin sibling which isnt really totc but does support the doppelganger angle of syd and charles

#id say id be losing my mind at yf ricky but literally id be losing it at any of these rickys #alternatively it could be something based on chopin which would be neat but realtalk i dont think ricky and chopin have that much in common #cept getting stuck in france and playing salon concerts and having the first surname #man i wish ricky had a liszt esque friend who could get him into shenanigans. no none of the canon characters count #i have like. no ideas for antonio (cept red violin and i know thats off timelinewise) but i am loaded with ricky ones #and he did shockingly well this year so i have genuine fear #tho if he did ever win as long as it was somewhat ok id probably be cool w whatever #my favorite ds so far is hamlet and dorothy idk if theyre ever gonna top those lol #theyd have to work pretty darn hard lol. those are pretty much my favorite movie and a play im really darn fond of #gameblogging #french virelai

[elytrafemme]

oh em gee do you have a list of cannon stims for csranboo you can share

shit dude i'll take suggestions /hj

nah but uh good question! it's hard because while writing CS i try to differentiate the different mannerisms that tubbo and ranboo have but my memory is rather bad so i can't recall which is what. as far as i'm aware cs!ranboo's canon list of stims are:

squeak stim (happened as pre-teen and younger, hasn't done since)

fidgeting (predominantly with jewelry, sleeves, shirt hems, gloves, etc.)

biting stim (minor but i've talked with Chase about cs!ranboo potentially getting a chew necklace for himself someday)

chirps etc. (once he recovers enough from events mentioned in ch 22 to start squeak stimming again, i think he starts doing more stuff :D)

those are all the ones that i can think off the top of my head that i have at least in some capacity canonized? i can't remember if I made it so that cs!tubbo plays with his hair or cs!ranboo-- i think that was a cs!tubbo & cs!tommy thing, if not just cs!tommy. there may be other stuff but the pain of a long fic is that it's damn near impossible for me to refind this stuff without sinking in a lot of time, and when it's something like his mannerisms that pop up every chapter i try to go with my gut

saving this ask as a ref for self but yeah! there are the main ones :]

#nightmare.ask #nightmare.fave #nightmare.cough-syrup #sleepy anon ☁️ #trying to put in as many tags as possible so i can reference this later #i'm undecided on cs!tubbo-- ik that he's nd but idk if he stims or not #most of what he does that i've listed are like nervous habits #but i mean it's hard to tell #and also the fact that i don't really intend the characters to have anything aside from what i've explicitly said #like cs!ranboo canotically has psychosis; it's not like explicitly canon that he's autistic though that's pretty like. #that's a pretty popular headcanon. i just hesitate to say yes to things that i didn't initially intend #because i don't want to portray them wrong due to not specifically intending for it at the start #anyway sorry for the rant i wanted to say that at some point but i didn't know where #none of that should contradict what y'all want to headcanon and interpret bc literally go for it #just uhhh yeah. either way though cs!ranboo is nd lol

[a-god-in-ruins-rises]

i love when clones kill jedi

#only saying this because i saw a post where someone said #they're tired of clones being so associated with mandalorian culture #and that clones should be more influenced by jedi culture #but tbh i love the mandalorian-clone relationship #the republic commando books are some of all-time favorite fiction #kal'buir T.T #honestly those books showed me a whole new way of interpreting the star wars universe #were there some okay jedi? #sure #i mean that's a pretty major point of the series #and how these good jedi #interact and integrate in mandalorian/clone culture #and also the books made a very strong case for why the clones would be more connected to mandalorian culture #they were literally trained by mandalorians #the cuy'val dar and all that #meanwhile the jedi didn't even know about them until they were basically being deployed #and i know none of this is canon anymore but it should be and it is to me #honestly this clone-mandalorian relationship is probably my favorite part of star wars lore #well that and the old republic stuff #but lol even the old republic stuff appeals to me mostly for the mandalorians #obscure fact about me: i used to know how to speak a bunch of mando'a #and mando'a is what got me into linguistics and constructed languages

[sorrelchestnut]

I've seen a fair number of posts both here and on reddit that question why Tav (or the Dark Urge) would end up as a group leader for any other reason that "game mechanics say so." There's the requisite "okay, well if you play a high charisma character I guess it makes sense," or on the other end of the spectrum, "if you're playing Durge and murder someone right off the bat everyone would be too scared to tell you no." And I get where people are going with this! I really do. But it also fundamentally misunderstands a facet of human nature, which is that the vast majority of people do not actually want to be in charge, because that means being held responsible for the outcome. Accordingly, most people will dither when a group consensus is needed: have none of you ever tried to get a group of friends to agree where to go for dinner? Yeah, it's like that, but waaaay worse.

A lot of times "leadership" is just the willingness to say, "fuck it, y'all do what you want, but I'm doing this." I see it all the time in a corporate environment, where people will go back and forth on group meetings without anyone making a decision until finally one brave soul goes "in my opinion the clear answer is x" and then everyone gratefully goes along with it. Because now it's not their responsibility when something goes wrong! They're just following along with someone else's suggestion, and maybe it works or maybe it doesn't, but at the end of the day they don't have to worry about the consequences unless they're personally affected. In which case they might step up and argue back, and then they're stuck being a leader, too. Welcome to adulthood!

Lae'zel is the only one who ever even tries to exert some kind of control, when she tells you to follow her lead on the ship, or calls you her subordinate in the Grove. But, crucially, she doesn't ever make any serious attempt to take control: you can just tell her, "lol, no," and she sort of confusedly gives way, because she doesn't know how to handle this scenario. In her world there are commanders and subordinates, and everyone knows where they stand and falls in line. She's never actually had to take control of a situation and so at the first sign of resistance she falls back on the dynamic that's familiar to her, which is executing the commands of someone older and more experienced. She goes through a lot of growth over the game, to the point that she can take over as a resistance leader in her own right by the end, but at the beginning she's a wet-behind-her-ears private with some decent combat chops and it shows.

Otherwise, your party consists of:

Shadowheart, who's trained in infiltration and assassination and does NOT want a lot of attention brought to her or her mission for a variety of reasons;

Astarion, who has literally been a slave for two centuries and canonically takes a while to realize that he can exert an opinion beyond complaining about it;

Gale, whose only friend is his cat and couldn't project-manage his way out of a wet paper bag;

Wyll, who was probably trained for command at one point but has been doing the lone-hero thing for a decade and has a very large secret that he's trying to conceal; and,

Karlach, who's only ever been a bodyguard and a soldier and is genuinely just happy to be here.

Honestly, it would be more a surprise if Tav/Durge didn't end up as their unofficial leader, given the general power dynamics at play. The first time Tav/Durge says something like, "fuck it, we need to do something instead of stand around arguing about it, let's go check out those ruins over there," it's a done deal. They're The Captain Now! As long as they don't make decisions that fundamentally oppose something dear and important to the other group members, they're not even going to get any argument. Because at the end of the day, not one of these walking disasters has enough trust in themselves and their decision-making skills to feel any kind of certainty that they can choose the right path forward. If someone else is going to take that decision out of their hands? They're going to follow, no questions asked, right up until the moment they can't.

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #meta #some of you people have never suffered through group projects and it shows

[psychoticwillgraham]

me, looking for good fics and seeing pairings that involve Will and like three other characters that his actor has played (im only aware of two of them but have only seen the media one of them is from) and there’s an absolute fuckton of these and apparently the popular headcanon is that they’re all siblings??

#im only aware of two of the characters and those are Adam and Nolan but the other dude?? #and I think there might actually be a fourth now that I’m thinking about it?? #but would it actually be incest if none of them are from the same canon/show #therefore canonically not actually siblings?? #idk y’all I’m fuckin confused this fandom is…. something else lol #then again it’s a fandom for a show about gay serial killer cannibals #of course the fics are gonna have literally everything under the sun in them #I mean that’s one way to write smut about those characters I guess?

[kil9]

i think if any 2 minis were actually related it would be gwemin and wanmin.... sowry

#99.txt #they get along like piss but... kinda like me and my sister tbh #but canonically rn none of them are related at all #i have a gag in my mind thats like.... some outsider being like ''ur all brothers right'' & theyre like ''no ??? lol ?'' #& theyre like ''yeah but you all look so similar'' & theyre all like ''nah i dont see it'' despite literally all having the same face gskdj #& like ''but all your last names are lee ??'' ''nah thats not that weird'' ''no yea its rly not'' #its rly not.....